Akira Iriye

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Akira Iriye (Ph.D., Harvard) is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University, specializing in U.S. diplomatic and international history. He is the only Japanese citizen ever to serve as President of the American Historical Association. In 2005, he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star, one of Japan's highest civilian honors.

Akira Iriye was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1934. He received a B.A. from Haverford College in 1957, and a Ph.D. in U.S. and East Asian History from Harvard in 1961. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974.

Prof. Iriye began as an Instructor and Lecturer in history at Harvard following receipt of his Ph.D. He then taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Rochester, and the University of Chicago before accepting an appointment as Professor of History at Harvard University in 1989, where he became Charles Warren Professor of American History in 1991. During the summers, he currently teaches at Waseda University.

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After Imperialism: A Search for a New Order in the Far East, 1921-1931 (1965)
Pacific Estrangement: Japanese and American Expansion, 1897-1911 (1972)
Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945 (1981)
The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (1987)
Fifty Years of Japanese-American Relations (in Japanese, 1991)
China and Japan in the Global Setting (1992)
The Globalizing of America (1993)
Cultural Internationalism an World Order (1997).
Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World (2002)